Management

Development

Hey everyone! My name is Daniil Bazhenov, I'm a CTO at Simtech Development. This year I'm in charge of the Management section. At Simtech I manage a team of 60+ developers and project managers. I love what I do, that's why I enjoy learning more about management and taking up new practices at work. This year I invited the best experts in the field for you and I'd like to learn from them myself.

The information in this section will be useful to anyone who needs management skills: from tech leads and project managers to CEOs and startupers. We'll talk about leadership and the skills a leader should have. We'll learn how to inspire people and deal with resistance against the changes. We'll look into the processes of product management involving both an in-house team, and a remote team.

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The era of
management is coming to an end—we work on complex systems which are developed
by intellectual people, and in such an environment leadership becomes the only
effective management model.But how to become a person who people will
follow?How to continue to bear significant responsibility when, ultimately, the
only working tool available is the power of personality?And how to
boost this power so that it’s clear for everyone that you are the person who
can lead to success?And what does Agile have to do with that?

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We will not talk with you about the
processes and tools of flexible approaches, but about what lies behind these processes
and tools. I would like to bring you the understanding of their philosophy and
values. After all, to successfully use flexible approaches it is not enough
just to mechanically apply the methodologies, it is important to think
differently.

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What is self-organization? Many people talk about it but few have seen it and even fewer believe that it really exists.

In the world that is increasingly speeding up, the systems that we work with are getting more and more complex. Under such conditions, the most efficient managerial model is an approach that places decision-making responsibility on those who works ‘at the ground level’, sees the situation from the straight source and can at the earliest act on the changes. Involving people in decision-making, bringing them together in teams, we provide stability and flexibility of the company's development. At that, the team effectiveness comes to the first place, as well as its motivation and ultimately, self-organization.

But how to engage people into this process? How to achieve self-organization

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A story about cooking Agile at JetBrains. We do it on real examples of various teams: product, marketing, designer teams and a team of technical writers. My story will be interesting to everybody living in the IT world. Especially if you are sure that you follow no processes and in case you do follow you do it in a wrong way. Unexpectedly, this is the evidence of the fact that you have apprehended Agile and you just lack the secret ingredient.

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— a few teams have learnt a more efficient way of interconnection sidestepping bureaucratic restrictions, yet they received a rap on the knuckles for doing that; and the organization has adopted a new regulation, which forbids this interconnection

— following the retrospective review, a development team has revealed a pervasive problem, with the solution being beyond their control. The problem has passed several levels of escalation when it was finally delegated to CTO; the latter ordered Operations Department. In Operations Department, the order transferred to a claim, which was triply delegated, then lost, forgotten, downgraded in its priority, and finally archived. At that, everyone in between the team and Support Department is satisfied: from their point of view, the team’s problem has been resolved.

If this situation takes place consistently, the employees start at a certain point feeling their helplessness. In other words, the staff simply gives up and refuses any attempts to change something; they gain an understanding that they have no control over the outcome of a situation regardless the actions being taken.

This feeling is defined as “Learned Helplessness”. In the course of our session we will gain insights on “Learned Helplessness”, trace the origin of the term, and come to grips with what it means for businesses; we will study some specific cases on how to avoid falling into its trap, and getting out if you have already fallen into it.